Anthony Weiner makes a scene on campaign trail

“I don’t know if there’s anything similar between South Carolina and Brooklyn Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan,” he said. “I wasn’t watching it very carefully. … I don’t look at this race through the lens of anyone else. I think it’s a fairly unique situation. Wouldn’t you agree?”

He fielded questions from reporters at a press conference after he shook hands with voters at a subway station. Then he boarded a downtown express train, a crush of media in tow.

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A woman named Lorie Coad grilled him, urging Weiner to focus on the homeless problem, public schools and the cost of living. Then she shouted out to him to keep away from social media.

“Stop going online and texting stuff, man,” she told Weiner. “Leave that alone. Stay off of Facebook and all that. Leave that alone.”

Weiner turned to Coad, who had just praised the former congressman, and said: “We were doing so well there for a minute. I almost got off this train with everything going fine. Alright, thank you, dear.”

Then he took pictures with other women on the train, who had been splashed by a reporter’s spilled cup of iced coffee.

Another straphanger, named Richard, called out to Weiner — not to talk about the mayor’s race but about his hope that Hillary Clinton will run.

Weiner said he thought she’d be a great president but hoped she’d get some rest.

Weiner sat down next to him and chatted with Richard, who said he was a transplant from Wyoming.

“How’s it going in Wyoming?” Weiner asked. “They have running water and indoor plumbing there yet? How’s that working out?”

Richard replied, “You’re losing the vote.” He told a reporter later, “He could work on that,” referring to Weiner’s humor.

At another point, Weiner called out broadly to the subway car, “Let me just apologize to everyone! I apologize for the inconvenience.”

A half-hour later, as he parted ways with reporters, he said the only two moments he wished he was still in Congress were when Hurricane Sandy hit his district and when Rep. Michele Bachmann had questioned whether his wife had ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.